Shannen Doherty wins $6.3 million in Woolsey house fire lawsuit against State Farm

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Shannen Doherty wins lawsuit against State Farm.

This Beverly Hills, 90210 As PEOPLE magazine can confirm, the 50-year-old alum was awarded a $6,346,000 settlement after her insurance company refused to cover the cost of repairs to her Malibu, California, home, which was damaged in the 2018 Woolsey Fire.

“We thank the jury for their thoughtful consideration of Shannen’s case,” her attorney Devin McRae told PEOPLE in a statement. “We are pleased that they viewed the case the way we did. This should send a message to institutions that they should not forget that they are dealing with human beings.”

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The amount awarded in the civil case includes damage to her home, personal property, mental suffering and attorney fees.

“We sympathize with Ms. Doherty and wish her the best,” a State Farm representative told PEOPLE. “We are disappointed with the jury’s decision and respectfully disagree with it. We will consider all available legal options, including appealing the verdict.”

Doherty revealed she had stage four breast cancer in February 2020, after previously announcing the cancer was in remission in 2017. Although the star said she did not want to make a health update public after a year of living with the diagnosis, the actress expressed that she wanted to get ahead of the news, which was set to be revealed in her legal battle with her insurance company.

As TMZ reported at the time, State Farm accused her of using her condition as a legal strategy to “elicit sympathy” in the lawsuit.

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“I wish people would have heard it from me,” Doherty said in Good morning America at the time. “I don’t want it to be twisted; I don’t want it to be a court document. I want it to be real and authentic, and I want to control the narrative. I want people to know from me.”

This Enchanted The star’s legal victory came as she gave ABC News an update on her health on Monday, explaining that she was “living life” and spending time “with friends and family and working.”

“I think the work has always been very rewarding for me, but in some ways it’s become even more rewarding. A lot of people who are diagnosed with Stage 4 are kind of written off,” Doherty said. “It’s assumed that they can’t work or they can’t work to their full potential. And that’s not true, and I wish people would stop making that assumption and give us a chance to prove them wrong.”